Cheating in Call of Duty has all the time been a dangerous enterprise, however it’s gotten particularly fraught in late February. A latest replace from Activision’s official CoD X account mentioned that the sport’s anti-cheat crew have been monitoring a spike in dishonest throughout the neighborhood, which resulted in over 6,000 accounts being banned in a four-day span.
In response to the publish, the builders are at present testing extra safety updates, however the crew already pushed one which disabled sport code that cheaters have been utilizing to realize unlawful benefits, like tremendous velocity. The replace additionally says that some cheat builders claimed that Ricochet–Call of Duty’s anti-cheat system–was offline over the weekend, however Activision clarified that solely a “single telemetry system” had been briefly taken offline. The over 6,000 suspended accounts occurred from February 16 to February 20.
Call of Duty’s builders have deployed quite a lot of inventive methods of coping with cheaters up to now. Earlier in 2024, the official CoD X account mentioned that Ricochet will merely shut the sport consumer if it detects intention help cheats like aimbots. Previous to that, Activision indicated that the crew behind CoD is experimenting with machine studying instruments to raised detect cheaters. The developer additionally launched a brand new anti-cheat measure to Warzone referred to as “splat,” the place cheaters lose their parachutes and mechanically crash to the bottom through the battle royale mode’s opening levels.
In different Call of Duty information, Activision lately decreased the value of what would’ve been the most costly bundle within the sport’s historical past, saying that it was an error.